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"Turns out I don’t need this book right now after all; I finally found a-Shell’s documentation (and it uses dash, not bash!). So perhaps I’ll read this at some point, but I’m done for now." — Nov 06, 2023 06:02AM
"Turns out I don’t need this book right now after all; I finally found a-Shell’s documentation (and it uses dash, not bash!). So perhaps I’ll read this at some point, but I’m done for now." — Nov 06, 2023 06:02AM
“Humans tended to use the terms free and freedom to indicate states of being that were anything but.”
― Mort(e)
― Mort(e)
“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”
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“When a people lose the courage to resist encroachment on their rights, then they can’t be saved by an outside force. Our belief is that people always have the kind of government they want and that individuals must bear the risks of freedom, even to the extent of giving their lives.”
― The Weapon Shops of Isher
― The Weapon Shops of Isher
“If I believe the same things today I did yesterday I've learned nothing.”
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“TIME Magazine probably publishes many facts, but since its founding in the early 1920's I have been on the spot eight or nine times when something that wound up as a news story in TIME happened. Not once—not once—did the TIME Magazine story match what I saw and heard.”
― Expanded Universe
― Expanded Universe
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